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  • “A piebald horse looms from the drizzle beside its new timber-built stable, and higher, on former downland with treeless hedges, the barley is yellowing.”

    The Guardian: Country diary

  • “In the first place, the distance to the nearest inhabited country is very great -- over 2,000 geographical miles -- and in the second, there is a serious obstruction on this route in the shape of the belt of pack-ice, which, narrow and loose as it may be at times, will always necessitate the employment of timber-built vessels for the work of transport.”

    The South Pole~ The Eastern Sledge Journey

  • “This tiny timber-built summer cabin is located in the woods between the coast and Lake Arresø in Northern Zealand.”

    Rock Blending Summer House in Vestfold, Norway

  • “On this isolated and mewed-up bit of lawn stood a timber-built cottage, having ornamental barge-boards, balconettes, and porch.”

    The Hand of Ethelberta

  • “The three structures around it were timber-built and tall, with wide doors.”

    Shield of Thunder

  • “The timber-built town of Buev, a town which has several times been burnt to the ground, lies huddled upon a hillock above the river Obericha.”

    Through Russia

  • “In the first place, the distance to the nearest inhabited country is very great — over 2,000 geographical miles — and in the second, there is a serious obstruction on this route in the shape of the belt of pack-ice, which, narrow and loose as it may be at times, will always necessitate the employment of timber-built vessels for the work of transport.”

    The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912

  • “The manor house lay a little aside from the village and the church, timber-built on the stone undercroft, in level, well-drained fields, with gentle wooded slopes beyond.”

    The Confession of Brother Haluin

  • “The Latin motto "Look and Go" reminded my brother of an old timber-built mansion in Staffordshire which, as it stood near a road, everybody stayed to admire, its architectural proportions being so beautiful.”

    From John O'Groats to Land's End

  • “When they reached the village of Ombersley, about ten miles distant, they hastily refreshed themselves at the old timber-built inn, which in honour of the event was afterwards named the”

    From John O'Groats to Land's End

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